Receptive skills plan: Receptive skills – Listening and Reading

Reading

Reading is multi-faceted in nature and thus who so ever a reader be, he must be skilled to derive meaning from printed text accurately and efficiently. Reading, developed as a skill intensifies one’s knowledge, understanding and intelligence. One must read the printed lines, as well as between the lines, behind the lines and beyond the lines for symbolic meanings, concealed meanings and ironic meanings connotatively as well as denotatively. Gangula & Eliah says “Reading any material is expected to make the reader more competent and give him more knowledge and insight.” (ijellh.com/papers/2015) In fact, reading is one of the resources of knowledge. Effective reading is an active reading. Therefore one must know the drive and intent. Since reading is thinking under the stimulus of the printed page, it is a psycholinguistic guessing game, a technical teacher, student and other professional reader must focus on this intellectual soft skill which is a perplexing and lucrative activity for a modern reader to get success in his career. Word by word reading, slow eye movement, complex words in a text and lack of concentration are major hurdles faced by students while reading. In addition, meaning is not at all inherent in the words of the text. While reading, each reader tries to understand it from his own perspective in the context of his past or present knowledge of the text. Since reading is an active process, a reader can understand a text only when he actively puts to use his mental faculties. While reading, a reader interacts with a text, decodes it and constructs meanings in the process. What he constructs depends on not only what the writer writes but also on what the reader brings to the text. This intellectual soft skill is a challenging and profitable activity for a contemporary reader since current textual material is mostly abstract and symbolic. Reading skills for students include a focus on philological forms, reading strategies, typical academic terminology and criteria tasks.